YIL that the world’s biggest magic competition is held in Québec! It’s run by the FISM (Fédération Internationale de Sociétés Magiques) and over 100 professional rabbit-pullers-out-of-hatters compete in eight different categories each year.… [Read More]
As Manon wrote a while back, words that are offensive in some places aren’t in others.
While you might see a poster for these bands on Melrose, at least one of them would probably not show up in an official advertising space in the LA Metro.… [Read More]
Lots of movie and TV shoots in Montréal right now–this past week one production has been camped out at a nightclub around the corner from our apartment, and I came across this scene in Dorchester Square yesterday on my bike ride.… [Read More]
Our apartment balcony faces a ruelle, a little street that’s pedestrian-only. It’s bordered by grass and trees, and mostly pleasant, except on the weekends when it becomes a pissoir for soused and screaming partyers (or, as the French so aptly say, les fêtards).… [Read More]
I just got a robocall from “Canadian Border Services” claiming that somebody sent me a package with illegal items in it and they’re holding it at the border and I had to press one to speak to a Canadian Border Services agent IMMEDIATELY and uh-oh I didn’t so I guess now they’re coming for me.… [Read More]
